Today is my friend and colleague's last day. It's meaning in all the type of " Last day". I think, very first she announced it to me. She got a new job and joining there on Monday. I am wishing from my heart, a very successfull career. I know, even if I don't wish, she is the blessed one. Doesn't have any type of stumbling blocks on her way.

I given her lunch, that was my treat, on last saturday. I told her one word, we may not have together today. That happened. But, she complained at the time of lunch, when she came to know, I am going out for something and would have lunch. It was like this...." What is this..... On my last day.....". I said "What to do?" I really can't avoid that. But, by the way, lost something else.

I wanted to wish her, but I don't know, how it will overflow and reflect. My mind is not in a stable. Somany times, she knew me very well and helped a lot. She was my good friend, but can't say true friend. So many reasons....... I know where she going and who will be her colleague. I know the situation of that working place, because I have lots of connections overthere.

I really knew, this relation won't be stable. But I liked that moments, can't say any other words. The series is going on. But something happened together. The good thing, I think, there is no memorable moments in our relation. But I never forget her. Not only her, whoever walks to my life and gone.

This is a beautiful message by Mr. Azim Premji. You must read it.

If you are a parent, you have many aspirations for your child that may include him or her becoming a doctor, an engineer, scientist or another kind of successful professional. I believe these aspirations are driven by your thinking about your child's future, and her centrality in your life.

Since good education is often the passport to a good future, I presume it leads you to getting your child admitted to a good school. Then you encourage your child to study hard and do well in school exams. To bolster this, you send him or her for tuition classes. This would have primed your child for board exams and entrance exams, thereby leading to admission into a good professional course. Doing well at college increases the probability of landing a good job. And a good job means the child's future is ensured.

I am neither a psychologist nor an educationist, and what I will now state may seem counter-intuitive. I think that these aspirations and actions might be doing more harm than good to your child. To understand why; we .need to re-examine some of our fundamental assumptions.
In the first place, I have seen time and again that living: for some distant future goal also means you do not live in the present. The distant goal will always translate into an external measure of success, such as exams. And most exam-focused children start forgetting what it means to be a child, to be curious, mischievous, exploring, falling, getting up, relating, discovering, inventing, doing, playing.

Childhood is very precious; precious enough not be wasted by the artificial pressures of contrived competition, by too many hours of bookish study; and by school report cards that simplistically wrap up an entire human being in numbers.

The second assumption is that education is merely a ticket to socio-economic success. Given the state of our country; this reality cannot be ignored. But restricting education to only this aspect is, I think, a very limiting notion of the aim of good education. The primary purpose of a school is to guide the child in her discovery of herself and her world, and to identify and nurture the child's talents. Just as every seed contains the future tree, each child is born with infinite potential. Imagine a school which sees children as seeds to be nurtured - here the teacher is a gardener who helps to bring out the potential already present in the child.

This is very different from the current view which sees the child as clay to be molded -where the teacher and parents are potters deciding what shape the clay should take. There is an old (and forgotten) Chinese saying: "Give a seed to a potter, and you will get a bonsai".

Even in a commercial organization, to make profits we do not have to chase profits. Rather, we need to build an institution that gives every employee an opportunity to do meaningful and fulfilling work.

Create an organization driven by values of innovation, integrity, customer centricity and care. And as you practice these values everyday and moment, you will see that the profits take care of themselves.

Similarly; dear parent, this is my request to you. Do not give up your child's present to secure his or her future. Give your child the freedom to truly explore life with abandon. In doing this, you will see your child flower into a creative and sensitive human being. And when this happens, everything else -money; social success, security -I will fall into place automatically.

Let your child be a child.

(The writer is Chairman, Wipro Ltd )

This is an e-mail came to me from one of my friend. I would like to blog it, so that, many can view this and can spread. You must read it.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

You make the choice. Don't look for a punch line. There isn't one. Read it anyway.

My question to all of you is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.

After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question.

When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?"

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. "I believe, that when a child like Shay comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes, in the way other people treat that child."

Then he told the following story: Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball.

Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?"

Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging. Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play.

The boy looked around for guidance and, getting none, he took matters into his own hands and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning."

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.

In the top of! the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in theoutfield. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least be able to make contact.

The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.

As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher took the ball and turned and threw the ball on a high arc to right field, far beyond the reach of the first baseman.

Everyone started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!"

Never in his life had Shay ever made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!"

By the time Shay rounded first base, the right fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions and intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head.

Shay ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases toward home.

Shay reached second base, the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third!"

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams were screaming, "Shay, run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the "grand slam" and won the game for his team.

"That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world."

AND, NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY:

We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people think twice about sharing.

The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people on your address list that aren't the appropriate" ones to receive this type of message.

Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make adifference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the "natural order of things."

So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:

Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up that opportunity, and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

You now have two choices:

1. Delete this.

2. Forward it to the people you care about.

Remember: Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

You are one!!

Hey, this is somewhat I found the solutions for the creamy Traffic Jam for Mumbai.

Point 1 :- Implement the season ticket system for BEST.

This is just like the system, what they had implemented in the APSRTC's city bus services at Hyderabad. The system works like this.

a. Issue a monthly season ticket for the passengers. It can include a daily pass also with a fixed amount.
b. The different passes should be availble for the buses like, AC, Ltd., Spl, and running to suburbs beyond Mumbai districts.
c. The highest grade can use the same pass to the lowest grade bus, while lowest can't use the same to highest.
d. The daily pass is for a fixed amount and it can be used anywhere within the day, depends on the buses. It should be marked / punched the date of issue and the validity for a day only.
e. The season ticket can be used any city bus from anywhere to anywhere.

The advantage of this system is, people don't want to wait for a bus to their destination and can avoid the rush on the bus and long queues for waiting a bus. If one had a season ticket and want to go from Andheri to Ghatkopar, he don't want to wait for the bus no. 34o. If he sees the first bus 415, going to SEEPZ, can get in from Andheri and get down at Chakala, then can catch another bus going towards Sakinaka, from there, he can catch another bus to Ghatkopar. Because of this system, people can leave their vehicles at home and can avoid the traffic clogs in the roads.

Point 2 :- Re-arrange the traffic flow.

For the peak time, controll the traffic of heavy jamming areas by preventing the entry of taxi's and rickshaws. It's observed that, the taxi's and rickshaw's are creating the big traffic problems in the city.

Point 3:- Follow the rules strictly

The main offensers of the traffic rules are Mumbai's Public Transporters (BEST). For example, if it is a heavy jam on the one lane, the BEST drivers are taking over through another lane. So, the followers, whoever, will come through this lane and makes fully jammed situations. The policemen, never take charge against this. I think, they are considering, it is a public transport system. Because of this offenses, the situation will become worst.

Secondly, the taxi's are stranding near to the stations, makes big problems. Police should not allow taxi's or rickshaws to strand from their lanes.

Point 4 :- Derive new laws for better performance.

This may be little difficult, but practice will make easy. In the city, all the bad habits are developing by the IT companies. They are for the growth of the country and the growth of the bad habits too.

Suppose, if one company is offering it's employees to the free pickup facility, then 50% will use the system and the rest will come by their own vehicles. To come office by own vehicles or by taxi, company will give the extra perks. For this extra perks, people will try to get own vehicles or use taxi's and increases the traffic and make the situation worst.

Here, police and govt. should follow the new rule, which recently applied on Banglore city for the solution of traffic jams. This rule is built in Banglore now only for the schools, but it can apply here for offices. The rule is as follows:-

" If one school having school bus to pick up their students, if any students are coming to the school using their own vehicle, fine them a minimum of Rs. 500/- and warn. If any school doesn't have school bus, govt. are offering state own bus for plying school service for a particular time. This will reduce the traffic and could effective. "

This can be applied here by changing it to the companies, those who are having own buses. If the company needs vehicles other than bus's for their service, it should consider only for special purposes and can reduce the cost, effectively.

The above ideas can be utilize perfectly. If anybody agrees or not, expecting a comment on this.

Today, all "mallus" are celebrating Onam, no matter where they are.

Onam -- It is the harvest festival of Kerala, "God's own Country". I am proud to be a Keralite, but shame to tell that, devil's on the people's mind.

Oh, I forgot to explain the word "mallu". Peoples in Kerala, it is an Indian state, are speaking a language called Malayalam. So, whoever, belongs to Kerala and speaks malayalam known as Malayalee. But, when this malayalee gone out of his state, others are calling him with a short name called "mallu". Let's discuss about Onam.

My childhood days, Onam given me very much enjoying and pleasure. Still the same, but I missed a lot. It is the harvest festival. But this year, because of rain and flood, somany lost their belongings and the output of their effort. But, each and every malayaalee, if they didn't have anything, they will at least celebrate one time of the Onam. It starts from Atham, malayalam day, and the exact onam coming after 10 days of this Atham. People arranging the flowers on ground, known as "Onapookkalam", and somany games, including the famous boat racing there. The main attraction is, people are grabbing, I think that is the right word to match here, new things for them and making their lunch as much elaberate as they can. The food, that is the main part of Onam. That is the profit of their effort and the atmosphere at the Onam time also too good to enjoy.

After Onam Lunch, called Onasadya, people are coming out from their houses to enjoy with different types of games, known as Onakkali. It is all the variety of malayalee and who never forget their past.

Behind the Onam, another story also there. One king, named Mahabali ruled Kerala once. He was truthfull to everything. So, the gods are so jealous to him and planned to remove. They send one god to him and asked the place to pray. He told him to take the place as much he want. For this, he showed his exact size and started to take. But, that was not enough, finally, they pulled Mahabali down to the hell. People in Kerala believe, at Onam, Mahabali visits there and watching his people.

Anyway, it is the celebration of Unity and Prosperity. Happy Onam to all.

Let me begin with some simple statistics......

1 CAN $ = IND Rs 32 (this is past)
after 5 months , it is......
1 CAN $ = IND Rs 37

i dont think Canadian Economy is in such a boom, so its obvious that Indian Economy is Going Down.

Our Economy is in our hands

Indian economy is in a crisis - As you are all aware, India like many other Asian countries, is undergoing a severe economic crunch. Many Indian industries are going bankrupt and shutting down. If we do not take proper steps to control this, we will be in a critical situation. More than 30000 crore rupees of foreign exchange is being siphoned out of our country on products such as cosmetics,snacks, tea, beverages...etc which are grown, produced and consumed here.

A cold drink that costs only 70/80 paise to produce is sold for nine rupees, and a major chunk of profits from these is sent abroad. This is a serious drain on Indian economy.

Did you know that "Coca Cola" and "Sprite" belong to the same multinational company,"Coca Cola"?

On one hand coke advertisements say that 'Jo chaho hojaye, cocacola enjoy' (i.e. whatever the hell, let it happen, you drink coke) ; and on the other hand, Sprite says that 'Bhujao only pyas, baki all bakwas' ( i.e. drinks can just quench thirst all other claims are false).

What can we do?
You can consider some of the better alternatives to aerated drinks.

Pepsi is not an exception.

We can go for better options like lemon juice, fresh fruit juices, chilled lassi (sweet or sour), butter milk, coconut water, jaljeera, enerjee, masala milk..........

Everyone deserves a healthy drink, including you! Over and above all this, economic sanctions have been imposed on us. We have nothing against Multinational companies, but to protect our own interests we request everybody to use Indian products atleast for the next two years.

Also, with the rise in petrol prices, if we do not do what we need to, the rupee will devalue further and we will end up paying much more for the same products in the near future.

What can we do about it?

1. Buy only products manufactured by WHOLLY INDIAN COMPANIES.
2. ENROLL as many people as possible for this cause.

Each individual should become a leader for this awareness. This is the only way to save our country from severe economic crisis.You don't need to give up your lifestyle. You just need to choose an alternate product. All categories of products are available from WHOLLY INDIAN COMPANIES.

List of products.

Bathing Soap:
Use - Cinthol & other Godrej brands, Santoor,Wipro Shikakai, MysoreSandal,Margo, Neem, Evita, Medimix, Ganga, Nirma bath, Chandrika.INSTEAD OF - Lux, Lifeboy, Rexona, Liril, Dove,Pears,Hamam,LeSancy,Camay,Palmolive

Tooth paste:
USE - Neem, Babool, Promise, Vico Vajradanti,Prudent,Dabur ProductsINSTEAD OF- Colgate, Close up, Pepsodent, Cibaca,Forhans, Mentadent.

Tooth brush:
USE - Prudent, Ajanta, Promise.INSTEAD OF - Colgate, Close up, Pepsodent, Forhans.

Shaving Cream
USE - Godrej, Emani.INSTEAD OF - Palmolive, Old Spiice, Gillete.

Shaving Blade
USE - SuperMax, Topaz, Lazer, Ashoka.INSTEAD OF - Seven-O-clock, 365, Gillet.

Talcum Powder
USE - Santoor, Gokul, Cinthol, Wipro baby powder,BoroplusINSTEAD OF - Ponds, Old Spice, Johnson baby powder, Shower to Shower.

Milk Powder
USE - Indiana, Amul, Amulya.INSTEAD OF - Anikspray, Milkana, Everyday milk,Milkmaid.

Shampoo:
USE - Lakme, Nirma, VelvetINSTEAD OF - Halo, All Clear, Nyle, SunSilk.

And above all, CLOTHES.

Do you know that the cotton is produced in the indian villages, threads are produced in the indian towns, dresses are stitched in indian cities and clothes are purchased by indian customers. But it is BRANDED as MANUFACTURED BY A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY for which we LOSE PRECIOUS FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

THE POINT TO NOTE: Our Money is gwtting drained to some Developed countries.

This is absolutely TRUE.

PLEASE go to the remote areas of cities and try to see the truth for urself. Thousands of poor Indians are working as tailors, stitching the WORLD'S POPULAR READYMADE CLOTHES. But they are paid a poor amount. This is happening because of our ignorance that India ia one of the major textile exporters in the World.

OUR TAILORS ARE FAMOUS EVEN IN COUNTRIES LIKE US AND UK. THEN WHY SHOULD WE BLINDLY GIVE IN TO THE ATTRACTION OF FOREIGN BRANDS?

PLEASE THINK OF IT.

Every Indian product you buy makes a big difference. It saves INDIAN Economy. Let us take a firm decision today.BUY INDIAN TO BE INDIAN. We are not against of foreign products.

WE ARE NOT ANTI-MULTINATIONAL.

We are trying to save our Nation. EVERY DAY IS A STRUGGLE FOR A REAL FREEDOM . ..

We achieved our independence after losing many lives. They took the pain to ensure us a peaceful life. But the current trend is very threatening. Multinationals call it, "Globalisation of Indian Economy". For indians like you and me, it is "Re-Colonisation of India". Let us make sure we dont let the past to repeat. After all, who would like to let a "Goos that lays Golden Eggs" to slip away.

PLEASE REMEMBER : POLITICAL FREEDOM IS USELESS WITHOUT ECONOMICINDEPENDENCE.

FINALLY: If u cant give up all the items mentioned above, give up "Atleast one item for the sake of our Country".

LITTLE DROPS MAKE A GREAT OCEAN.

( Changes have been made to the original version of this article to make it more effective).

Jai Hind Jus simply Dont forwad it to all atleast try to follow this alone as much asu can....

Three days back, when I was walking to office, I just think about this subject and planned to write a blog.
Jealous -- a dangerous thing, that hide every humans mind. Sometimes it is coming out without any force, sometimes we made it. Let's analyse the jealous in a human life cycle.
We all believed that, childrens are reflecting the characters of God. That was in old days. Now they are also having jealous. I am taking an example of my nephew. He is only 1 year old. After a year of his birth, when I was seeing him very first time, he was refused to come and play with me. When his cousine, she is 4 months younger than him, came to my hand, then he started to cry and pulled me to take him on other hand. If you are thinking, this is the nature of childrens, then you got wrong. After he came to my right hand. He saw, his cousine was on other hand. He started to screaming and pulling her down from my hand. This is a kind of jealous, that can be cured by good parenting.
When the childrens are on growing up, the jealous are injecting by their parents. For example, school going childrens, parents are much affected their life. If the children's are lag behind studies and their friends' are scoring higher marks on the exams, then this parents are starting to push thier children and this is a type of injection. If it is increasing badly, then the children decide to leave the friendship with anybody and thus he leads a lonly life. It will more trouble on his / her life. The next symptom of this is, when these kids are participating a program. These time, the injection of jealous might increase, because, the parents are so concern about their kids.
Upto the above level, the jealous are injecting or creating by the presence of thier parents' behaviour.
When they are in the teenage or college going, the jealous, is developing themselves. It is so because, his or her colleague is either so beauty or having a good friends circle. The general kind of jealous is developing in a teenage boy is in this way. If his friend is cute looking and having somany girl friends' or the girls are loving to talk to him, the jealous is growing there. But the same time jealous is starting in a girl is another way. If her friend having long hair or looks so beauty or having better options than her, there it starts. She always looks her friend so jealouly, comparatively a boy. Becasue, boys are trying to make improve on their characters.
But in the matured age, the jealous are growing in the different kind of matters. Mainly it will be because of money or the position, who is having in the community.
All these increasing of jealous world will ruin the growth of good future of the childrens.